To know more in depth
For those of you who want to learn more in depth, or who want to have some web resources at hand, I have prepared a selection of web resources related to the different units.
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Week 2. Unit 1. A Chinese city: the Qingming shanghe tu
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The Song Dynasty in China.Life in the Song seen through a 12th-century scroll
Asia for educators. Columbia University. -
The Qingming scroll
Digital East Asian Studies. Harvard University -
Urban life
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Along the river during the Qinming festival
China online Museum presentation of different versions of the scroll
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A Moving masterpiece. The Song dynasty as living art 动感《清明上河图》
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From the Song to the Ming,presented by Andrew Graham-Dixon.
BBC, Art of China
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China Heritage Newsletter: International Conference on Qingming Shanghe tu and Song dynasty genre paintings, Beijing, 10-12 october, 2005.
China Heritage Project. The Australian National University, nº4, December 2005 -
Hansen, V., The Mystery of the Qingming Scroll and its subject
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Johnson, Ian, Nobel renews debate on Chinese Medicine
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Week 2. Unit 2. Song dynasty
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The Song Dynasty in China. Life in the Song seen through a 12th-century scroll
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Painting of a woman and children surrounding a peddler of goods in the countryside, by Li Song (c. 1190–1225), dated 1210 AD
Li Sung - The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei.
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- From the Song to the Ming
BBC Art of China, presented by Andrew Graham-Dixon, 2.
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Brief Background Introduction to How Things Were in Eurasia On the Eve of Mongol Invasion & Conquest
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Gracie, C., Wang Anshi: The Reformer beaten by the mandarins
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Hansen, Valerie, The Kitan people, the Liao dynasty (916-1125) and their World (link provided by Roxana Zanea)
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Hymes, R.P. and Schirokauer, C. (eds.) (1993) Ordering the World: Approaches to State and Society in Sung Dynasty China
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Zurndorfer, H. The Resistant fiber: pre-modern history of cotton in China
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Week 2. Unit 3. The founding of the Mongol empire: Chinggis Khan
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The Mongols in World History
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The Legacy of Genghis Khan. Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia, 1256-1353
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Peggy Beck Haines, Mongols Resources
Listen to a podcast
- Genghis Khan on In Our Time at the BBC
Melvyn Bragg discusses Genghis Khan with Peter Jackson, Professor of Medieval History at Keele University; Naomi Standen, Lecturer in Chinese History at Newcastle University;George Lane, Lecturer in History at the School of Oriental and African Studies
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Callaway, E., Genghis Khan’s genetic legacy has competition (link provided by Michel Hardman)
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Pouisuo, P. 10 Amazing facts about the Mongols (link provided by Marina Nieto)
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The travels of Chang Chun, 1219-1224. Translated by E. Bretschneider (1888)
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The secret history of the Mongols
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Week 2. Unit 4. The first global world
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Hans Van Roon, Mongols China and the Silk Road. Archeology and History of the Silk Road (link provided by Birgitte Crawfurd and Lucy Costa)
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- The Black death
Melvyn Bragg discusses Black death with With Miri Rubin, Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London; Samuel Cohn, Professor of Medieval History at the University of Glasgow; Paul Binski, Professor of the History of Medieval Art at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge.
BBC Radio 4 In Our Time
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The Mongol Empire: Kublai Khan
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Medieval Apocalypse. The Black Death
National Geographic History channel HD Documentary
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Gracie, C., Kublai Khan: China’s favourite barbarian
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Rossabi, M. All the Khan’s Horses
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Sczepanski, Kallie, Black Death in Asia. Bubonic Plague
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Week 2. Unit 5. The first european travellers
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- Prester John (link provided by Patricia Nunes)
Melvyn Bragg discuss Prester John with Marianne O’Doherty, Associate Professor in English at the University of Southampton; Martin Palmer, Director of the International Consultancy on Religion, Education, and Culture, and Amanda Power, Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Sheffield.
BBC Radio 4 In Our Time
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Rachewiltz, Igor de, Prester John and the European Discovery of East Asia (link provided by Hamish Morrison)
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Rogocínska, Monica, Two worlds collide. Searching for traces of Benedict the Pole (link provided bi Birgitte Crawfurd)
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Waugh, Daniel D., Travel and travelers in Medieval Eurasia (link provided by Birgitte Crawfurd)
World History Connected, Volume 10, Number 1, February 2013
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Pegolotti’s, Merchant Handbook
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Ruy de Clavijo, Clavijo’s embassy to Tamerlane
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Contemporaries of Marco Polo consisting of the travel records to the eastern parts of the world of William of Rubruck (1253-1255); the journey of John of Pian de Carpini (1245-1247); the journal of Friar Odoric (1318-1330) & the oriental travels of Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela (1160-1173) (1928)
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Rabban Bar Sauma, The history of the life of Rabban Sawma, 1278-1313
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John of Montecorvino, Report from China (1305)
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The journey of William of Rubruck to the eastern parts of the world, 1253-55
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Cathay and the way thither: fray Odoric of Pordenone’s text and appendixes
eBooks: Kindle Edition
This bibliography only includes e-Books. The link for each book enables you to “Look inside” the Contents and a sample of pages
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EBREY, Patricia B., Women and the Family in Chinese History
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GERNET, Jacques, La vie quotidienne en Chine: A la veille de l’invasion mongole (1250-1276). There is an English translation “Daily life in China”, but not in e-Book. You can read much of this book on-line here
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GOLDEN, Peter B., Central Asia in World History
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MORGAN, David, The Mongols
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PHILLIPS, Kim M., Before Orientalism: Asian Peoples and Cultures in European Travel Writing, 1245-1510
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WEATHERFORD, Jack, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
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WINCHESTER, Simon, Bomb, Book and Compass: Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China